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Week of September 11, 2015
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The Age of Adaline
The easiest way to tell someone’s real age is by looking at
his or hers liver-spotted hands.
Fortunately, every body-part of the immortal in this love
story is rejuvenated regularly.
After a series of unfortunate events leaves her with eternal
youth, recently widowed single-mother Adaline (Blake Lively) makes her way
through the decades, unaltered in her appearance or her age.
Fearful of being dissected for scientific study, she avoids
detection by playing granddaughter to her elderly daughter (Ellen Burstyn).
It’s not until a new love interest (Michiel Huisman)
introduces her to an old flame (Harrison Ford) that Adaline’s ageless secret is
compromised.
Despite its shaky science and predictable outcome, The Age
of Adaline is a textured romance that takes a realistic view of life
everlasting, particularly its unending complications involving love.
What’s more, Adeline gets to experience all that immortality
has to offer without having to eat any small children. Yellow Light
Monkey Kingdom
The best thing about being a part of an ape empire is that
you can rest assure that your children will never have lice for long.
In fact, grooming one another is only one of the odd practices
featured in this simian documentary.
When female toque macaque Maya migrates to the remains of an
antediluvian jungle temple in Sri Lanka called Castle Rock, she learns quickly
that the roost is ruled over by alpha macaque Raja and three sister monkeys.
Banished to the bottom of the food chain, Maya must now
struggle to feed her newborn Kip, whose father Kumar has since flown the coop.
Painstakingly captured on-camera by Disneynature’s intrepid
film crew and wittily narrated by Tina Fey, Monkey Kingdom is a comical and
captivating look at the social disorder of our distant cousins.
In fact, any more poop flinging and this could pass as a
reality TV show. Green Light
***Reign Forest***
She
The worst thing about having a female ruler is she always
falls in love with her enemy.
Thankfully, the jungle priestess in this action movie has
fallen for an explorer.
Ex-officers Holly (Peter Cushing), Leo (John Richardson) and
Job (Bernard Cribbins) head to Africa with a map leading the way to the lost
city of Kuma.
While they locate it, they soon find it’s ruled by
She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed (Ursula Andress), an immortal priestess who believes Leo
is the reincarnation of the lover she murdered 2,000 years ago.
Urged to walk through a blue flame that will grant him
immortality, Leo and his companions are distracted by a brewing rebellion and a
power-hungry priest (Christopher Lee).
Hammer Films’ adaption of an H. Rider Haggard tale, this
1965 CinemaScope jungle spectacle features a strong female lead and plenty of
thrills.
Incidentally, feminine rulers never go to war…they just
gossip about the enemy.
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